August 20, 1869 (4 pages)

WUIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1869. UNION BEPOBLICAN TICKET. E.G. WAITE.pec ee M. 5. VEAL. ‘ . For Treasurer, ‘Public Administrator, J. A. LANGAS TER. : UHas. McELY£Y. ipervisor, Second District, _ marion] PERRIN. Judicial Nominations, For Jadges-of the Supreme Coart. LORENZ) SAWYER, O C. PRATT. ” Por Judge of the 14th J ne EB MePARLAND. =, Tue Democratic ANTIDOTE.—The Democratic Legislature in 1853 at~ tempted to step Chinese immigration by a law, and the Reporter makes a pointon this. That paper says the Legislature of 1853 passed an act which it was believed at the time would have the desired effect. The sixth section 26 The amount to be paid for each license, (foreign miners) shail be said license shall in no case be transBy this it will be seen that Democraey struck pot only Chinese, but foreign miners of every country and color. In alized citizen was made to pay the “heavy tax, and many of the Cornish end Irish miners of Nevada and other mining counties placed in the same category with Chinese, that the Democratic measure for keeping them out should be carried into effect. Following eighth of @ cent per pound. That is 960 miles; while the whele di -. between Sacramento and New York is 3,181. Chicago to New York is less than one-third the “distance. Now, suppose we allow the Erie éight and a half, nay, nine times as much as it is . receiving, and insare to it ali the California trade and give it one cent or a peent and a sixteenth of a cent and an . down to Crocker’s proposition of tour cénts between New York and San Francisco, what arousing trade there would be on the road! And it will come to that one of these days. HeAvy Koppexy.—The Appeal says : We learn that a bold and successful robbery was. committed on Friday last a _. few miles below Colusa. -A day or two previous to the robbery, a farmer, whose bame our informant had forgotten. went to Colusa and. svld bis entire crop of grain for cash. After finishing his business and receiving his money the farmer went home, and some time during the oight his house was entercd by a couple of masked men who demand< ed his money or his life. Being help~ lees he was compelled by fear to hand over the money he had brought from Colusa—aboutthree thousand dollars. The robbers undoubtedly. were well posted as to the sale of grain and the sum of money on the’ premises. Union H1Lu.—Union Hill as a min~« ing town, bids fair to become one of the first in the county. Every depart. ment of business has Jately assumed a lively appearance. Work on the Lucky pm willsoon be resumed. The Lucky is a good mine, and when it starts up ‘Many men will find employment, and the stockholders will have goud dividends. The Union Hill mine is in suc. same theory, Democratic Legisla~ . cessful operation. They are running shut out all foreigners from this State. Butthe Act did not prevent Chinese coming, and the Democratic antidote proved a failure and oppression to every foreigner who came here. Bat the Reporter says Governor Big~ ler believed the State had a right to prevent the landing of Asiatics within her limits, and a law to that effect was passed in 1855, and the Reporter quotes section Ist of the law which prohibits the coming of any persons not competent for citizenship under the United on te assume that this law did prevent Chinese immigration, and >hat the next Legislature; which was a Know Noth. ing body repealed it. The editor of the Reporter, who we believe is exGovernor Bigler, ought to bb lawyer enough to know that this act tor which he takes so much credit to himself and the Democratic Legislature, was de~ clared invalid and void by he Supreme vernor is not aware of Court. Ifthe this fact, let refer to California Reporteyvol,%, page 169, where the case of the People ve. Down’ will be found, in which Judges Hydenfeht and Murray, both Democrats, decided that Governor 000. The work at the mill and mingis under the supervision of Capt. Henry Scadden, who not only understafds his buginess as a mining superintendent, -but isa clever gentleman in every respect. So says the Uniin. eat nal says that fout stacks of wheat, located on the east line of the city, und belonging w U. C. Cornell, was totally destroyed’by fire last Sunday evening. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, as one of the neighbors observed a man leaving ‘the premises 4 but a short time before it occurred. It is a severe loss to Cornwall, bis entire Summer's earnings having thus been swept away. An unsuccessful att: mpt to blow his house and family up was made bat a few months since. Sieerine Cars.—The Pullman Pa)ace Car Company have made arrangements to run regularly one day each week a through sleeping car from New . York to Prothontory, via Hudson River ‘and New York Ventral, Great Western, Canada and Michigan Central, to Chicago, thence via -Northwestern to Omaha. eighth per pound, and thus bring prices . . INCENDIARY.—The Petaluma Jour. aki fi m = ~ n made for ; six ha cage and intern Oints at twelve . dred feet deep, wi ‘An artesian auger cents per handred, or Jess than ong-. in Treasure Hill, and the rock chips strate of silver ore. . . A PRIVATE letter to the Los Angeles ing at 11 o'clock, at. the house of Dr. Thacker, fifteen miles from San Bucnaventura. Mus. Calhoun, traveljfg with the Coltax party, is « special correspondent of the New York Tribune. Her letters wiil be read with interest on both sides of the contipent.; APPLICATIONS to the extent of $3,000,000 have been made at the Treasary Department to deposit goid in the New York office and recetve therefor dratts on the San Francisco office. It is expected Government will assent to the request. ‘A MAN named Duffy, a deck hand on the steamer Goodman Castle, while engaged in unloading lumber from the boat -at Colusa on Saturday night, had his right ankle brokea, in consequence of some of the lumber falling upon it. the political issues of the day. Tae Western Pacific Railroad from Oakland, to Stockton, is expected to be in running order on the first/of SepTue Bulletin estingites there are fourteen millions of dollars locked up in the Sub-Treasary, San Francisco Treasury and Stéte Treasury. Senator Schurz, vf Missouri, is expected soon from the East, and the Germans of San Francisco are making arrangements for his: reception. Y (@rTos Nevaaw Bapnst Bonday days’ run have cleaned up about $15,-] School will celebrate their Third Anniversary, by appropriate exercises, on next Sunday evening. Everybody is invited to attend. FOURTEEN accidents have happen. ed among workmen in the Mare Island Navy Yen save Julyis, THE subroarine © cable connecting Vallejo with Mare Island was successfully laid August 13th. _ Tue California Powder Works manufactuted 12,930 kegs of powder during the month of July. A OWING to the dense smoke, navigation on Puget Sound is very difficult. Settee Harry Lewis, a Sun Francisco boy, fell from a tall tree at Santa Clara and broke both wrists, J. G. Gaier, a photographic a:tist, died at Camp Goodwin, en the upper Gila, July 2d. ‘ AN effort will be made to stop the usual gambling games at the State Fuir. Our old triend ‘tom Merry is now clerking on the steamer Goodman Casbrought up are to be examined for the purpose oi seeing whether there are any Weus says Colonel Siccamb, of the San, Francisco Dispatch h,died Saturday mornSENATOR Nye addressed a large asecmblage at Carson, August 14th, _) promise was offered $200 to eettie. “What!” Railroad is expected to be completed to this’ city, or te the weet bank of the Feather river, by the last of September, and the California and Uregon, passing up the west bank of the Feather river direct-to Chico, before next Spricg. Irun and ties fur one bundred miles . Of this railroad are lying at the Juiiction, and from Stockton to . Oakland. Probably the thou-auds of laborers now on the Western Pacific will te transferred to the California and. Uregen line about the Ist of (¢tober —_-} and if the winter s<ason should prove favurable for railroad constuction not many months will elapse before the iron horse will be heard snorting through the prosperons town of Chico. When these two rontes are completed Marysville will become an important railroad center, and must increase rapidly thereafter in population and business. Z y ‘Ex Califorpia, G F. Train has lashedthe Democrats more than he has the Kepublicans—contrary to his wont—and all Mie party Organs are aiter him accordingly, There is sincerity in the heartiness of th¢ir good-byes on his departure from ihe State, for they are immeueely giad to get rid ofhim. The burt bird fiatters. j and, A Freicut train ‘bronght 1,0°0 chickens to Elko,on Wedaesday a week, from Utab The Elko I.depéndent says that is a healthy place for chickens. as it had not seen a dead one there fof a long time—which is its way of telling th¢ Elko landlords that a little more fowl on their tables would be acceptable to ‘A maw who lately sued a lady for breach of cried, “two hundred Jollars for ruined hopes, a shattered mind, a, lif ,and a bres mom Two hondréd@ dollars for all this! ,mever! Make it three, and it's a bargain.” <~ A GERMAN sued his neighbor. for killing kis dog. The Justice asked the defendant if he killed the dog. schure I kilt him, but let him prove it,” was the reply. This being satisfactory, the plaintiff was asked, with the view of assessing damages, how much the dog was worth. “The dog mean as to kill him be shall pay the full value of him.” This — will apply to a guod many lawsuits.” “TOMMY, my son, fetch in a stick o~ wood.” .Ah, my dear mother,” respondf ed the youth, “the grammatical portion ot your ed ication has been. sadly neglected. You should havesaid—“Thoma8, MY son, transport trum that recum~ bent collection of combustible material upon the threshold of this edifice one of the curtailed excrescenses of a defunct log.” A Horse on a Drunx.—A New Hampshire paper says that while & cou~ ple of young men were driving out; their horse showed signs of fatigue, stopped, and refused to go any farther. They procured some whisky and ad~ ministered it to the tired animal. Under the exhilarating influence of the fluid he wus induced to proceed. All went well for a mile or two, when he began to stagger and reel about. Ho was quickly detached from the buggy, and led by one of the young men, the ether drawing the buggy until they came to a house, where they lets it. The horse then began to prance and caper about in @ manner that wag extremely amusing. They kept him upon his feet as long as they coul 1, but at last he went down, made a few feeble str.ggles to rise, and sank back dead drunk. It was some two hours before he became sober enough to get home. INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to .the Commissioners to ascertain. and réport upon the condition of both the Pacific Railroa.is. Fhe Annual Races begin on “Pe . chine. was worth nothing, but since he was go . —_—. j ANNUAL MMETING ie Glenbrook Park Jockey Club! THE E. 8. PRATT, Pioprietor ofthe Courre. FRIDaY, August 20th, 18€9. ere : FIRST DAY. First Race—A purse oi $200 to be given to Frahk Malone, owned by . Watt, « Frank,/owned by-.. ences dee, "_” Fray. owned by..06.Tisdale. agree, . Second Race.—Purse of $100 to be given to JA, Lancaster's Pacing Mare and Mike R. i. Jey's Pacing Horse. Mile aud iepeat; to harness, and go to rule. = ag : : SECOND DAY. FiretMace — Purse o $200 for dotible teams —three in five, trotting. Second Race— Purse of $100 for running horses—mile aud repeat. ; Third Race—A Puree of $26 for single dash” ofa quarter. eV All horses entered for these races to be owx. ed in Nevada County. Good Stabling can be had at the Course. ADMISSION. FIFTY CENTS. Badges of admission to:he Track. DURIN » THE EN‘ IKE RACKS may be obtained from.J. E. BROWN, of Nevada, and of A. B. BRADY, Grass Valley. ai9 BLIVEN & POTTER, Dealers in Crockery. & Glassware, PLATED WakE, French & American Paper Hangings, Borders, Window shades, : ¥.xtures, ete. ete, Agents for the Lome Shuttle Sewing MeNo, 18 Comimercial si. 229 MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON, Willeive TWOofher * POPULAR LECTUREs, Thursday & Friday, Aug.19 & 20. At Nevada Theatre, ing Unreasonable, * Admission One Dollar. al4 J. ALEXANDER, Agent. EXECUTORS SALE. Nore 1S HEREBY GIVEN that in prsuance vf un order of the Probate Court, of the County of Nevada, aud State of Califor. uta, Made on the lith day of 4 ih D. 1869, iu the matteF of the Estate of Honors Agama deceased, the Pg omy Executor» Of vaid hetate, will sell at ic Auction, to the highert biduer, fur cash, and subject to confirmation by said Probate Court, On Friday, the 27th day ¢fAugust 1869, at 11 o’cleck, A.M. At the Brick Building known as Kidd's Batid ing, lately occupied by Jas. E Jduhnston ;sad situated on the north sideuf B vad ete and adjoining the office of 3.1 Calaweil, in Nevsda City, Nevaca County, Cal, all she persons) alae now in suid Building and known as Beds, Bedding, ¢ hairs, Tables, Dishes, and other pe: sous! property. E. ¥. SPENCE, : : DANIbL # LYNN, j Bxecatore. Best pirce in five, to go as the Ownere may Bubject.—“Struggling for Life," and “Noth . t@ New York Hotel Furniture, _ Bigler and the Legivlature were wrong. They will meet at Ni Aug. 17th. . Omaha on Monday next; and thence . — ee ae = ——$ proceed to Sacramento. So statea the . ’ NILES sKARLS, latest news from Washington. Attorney and Counselor at Law, eee tle, running on the upper Sacramento Tiver. SEIS Mth Oh iat i aidan . A YouNG lady bas been admitted as & student in the Medical Department of Williamette University, Oregon. 4 Par Day at Mare IsLanp.—Twelve hundred.and thirty-three employees at Mare Island were paid off on Wedesday. Of this number 746 are employed in the construction and repair department: It required the nice little sum of $168,278, currency, to foot the bill . 000 in bank in favor of E. A. Rock woll, for last month’s labor. . © start av opposition bit paper to the Tur Herald adwits that Se DemoGe. (Tee peepristersol the Call dide ealneeal pal ticket uf San Fri good deed. when they got rid of sach a can nut beelected. It ssys “it is us oseeme ™ pane eh much past praying for, as if it were already doomed und sent to judgment,” Tuk fall of prices in lumber ‘at San Francisco begins to be felt in Washington Territory, and many of the mills Hon. Frank Soule, poet. historian and editor, and one of the most active and earnest of the old line Republicans, is now editing the San Francisco (heretofore Democratic) Gall. Whereat the Democrats are talking of placing $50,MAKI KD, ae . At San Francieco, on the 18th inst., by Rev D. D. Chapin, Alvah A. Muilo t ‘are V. alk a, all of Nevada city. y to Mise Clara ~ To the bride and groom in their hour of happiness, we tender our congratulations. May adversity nor suffering . ever cast blighting shadows o’er their life path ; but-be it, rather, a way of peace and loveliness, leading them. ‘gently, hand in hand, toa better world. __—_—_ DIKD, OFFICE—Corner of Broad and Pine Streets over Carley & Bechman's snloon, Nevadé, 38 THE wheat Shipment trom Stockton to Sun Francisco on the 4th inst., was 1,047 tons, It is estimated tuat 5,000 acres of flux were sown in Minneso.a this year. Oue maa in Austin has sown 200 acres. ——— THE Sacramento river, between Knight's Landing’ and Red Hed, is lower than ever vefore known, -— : A BoY thirteen years old shot and killed ao Indian near Valpella, Mendo-. = GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, -_ 4ND— PRODUCK STORE, COMMERCIAL STREET, adjoining Keeney's Hardware Store. R. & BP. SUMMERS, : Proprietors. . WM. S. McROBERTS: H*4 Charge ol the Kstablisbment which je Constunuly suppiied with FknSH PARM PRUDUCK, cunelsting of At Williamsport, Lad., id a spring by the side of the railroad which the company werd obliged to wall up with rocks to keep the water off the track. An explosion, agof gas, took. place at the spring a day or two since, by been discha hands, az cin last Near thi: Butter, Eggs, ( hickens, Turkeys name ‘ raing aad raD=. which the wall and earth around were . ? 8B. a — sou or Wil tans hee ‘teed pa a it ‘ Seeeuite tettonrana x = — * _, . growa up toa height of soveral fut. . Taz Democrais und Kepublicans of Big 4 Wittia =e Fe x pe ests Bs of Groeeto pea ae ay threo story brick . °2'"ely demolished, — a . ‘Pam ratiroea wurvey from Monterey Sony, inte eee at Law, procuring all sorts of Farm Produce ireeh, su : duilding in-thet place for Admiral FarTHERE aro 25 patients in the Mare So Salinas ig completed as far ae Castro. "* Wiebe Pet tak . ragut, j teland Marine Hospital, ees . ville. ‘ ms : 4 ash Prices, Nevada, Avg. 11th. iain and consumers peeeraty are iavt' Families ted to givs us a call.

WUIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1869. UNION BEPOBLICAN TICKET. E.G. WAITE.pec ee M. 5. VEAL. ‘ . For Treasurer, ‘Public Administrator, J. A. LANGAS TER. : UHas. McELY£Y. ipervisor, Second District, _ marion] PERRIN. Judicial Nominations, For Jadges-of the Supreme Coart. LORENZ) SAWYER, O C. PRATT. ” Por Judge of the 14th J ne EB MePARLAND. =, Tue Democratic ANTIDOTE.—The Democratic Legislature in 1853 at~ tempted to step Chinese immigration by a law, and the Reporter makes a pointon this. That paper says the Legislature of 1853 passed an act which it was believed at the time would have the desired effect. The sixth section 26 The amount to be paid for each license, (foreign miners) shail be said license shall in no case be transBy this it will be seen that Democraey struck pot only Chinese, but foreign miners of every country and color. In alized citizen was made to pay the “heavy tax, and many of the Cornish end Irish miners of Nevada and other mining counties placed in the same category with Chinese, that the Democratic measure for keeping them out should be carried into effect. Following eighth of @ cent per pound. That is 960 miles; while the whele di -. between Sacramento and New York is 3,181. Chicago to New York is less than one-third the “distance. Now, suppose we allow the Erie éight and a half, nay, nine times as much as it is . receiving, and insare to it ali the California trade and give it one cent or a peent and a sixteenth of a cent and an . down to Crocker’s proposition of tour cénts between New York and San Francisco, what arousing trade there would be on the road! And it will come to that one of these days. HeAvy Koppexy.—The Appeal says : We learn that a bold and successful robbery was. committed on Friday last a _. few miles below Colusa. -A day or two previous to the robbery, a farmer, whose bame our informant had forgotten. went to Colusa and. svld bis entire crop of grain for cash. After finishing his business and receiving his money the farmer went home, and some time during the oight his house was entercd by a couple of masked men who demand< ed his money or his life. Being help~ lees he was compelled by fear to hand over the money he had brought from Colusa—aboutthree thousand dollars. The robbers undoubtedly. were well posted as to the sale of grain and the sum of money on the’ premises. Union H1Lu.—Union Hill as a min~« ing town, bids fair to become one of the first in the county. Every depart. ment of business has Jately assumed a lively appearance. Work on the Lucky pm willsoon be resumed. The Lucky is a good mine, and when it starts up ‘Many men will find employment, and the stockholders will have goud dividends. The Union Hill mine is in suc. same theory, Democratic Legisla~ . cessful operation. They are running shut out all foreigners from this State. Butthe Act did not prevent Chinese coming, and the Democratic antidote proved a failure and oppression to every foreigner who came here. Bat the Reporter says Governor Big~ ler believed the State had a right to prevent the landing of Asiatics within her limits, and a law to that effect was passed in 1855, and the Reporter quotes section Ist of the law which prohibits the coming of any persons not competent for citizenship under the United on te assume that this law did prevent Chinese immigration, and >hat the next Legislature; which was a Know Noth. ing body repealed it. The editor of the Reporter, who we believe is exGovernor Bigler, ought to bb lawyer enough to know that this act tor which he takes so much credit to himself and the Democratic Legislature, was de~ clared invalid and void by he Supreme vernor is not aware of Court. Ifthe this fact, let refer to California Reporteyvol,%, page 169, where the case of the People ve. Down’ will be found, in which Judges Hydenfeht and Murray, both Democrats, decided that Governor 000. The work at the mill and mingis under the supervision of Capt. Henry Scadden, who not only understafds his buginess as a mining superintendent, -but isa clever gentleman in every respect. So says the Uniin. eat nal says that fout stacks of wheat, located on the east line of the city, und belonging w U. C. Cornell, was totally destroyed’by fire last Sunday evening. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, as one of the neighbors observed a man leaving ‘the premises 4 but a short time before it occurred. It is a severe loss to Cornwall, bis entire Summer's earnings having thus been swept away. An unsuccessful att: mpt to blow his house and family up was made bat a few months since. Sieerine Cars.—The Pullman Pa)ace Car Company have made arrangements to run regularly one day each week a through sleeping car from New . York to Prothontory, via Hudson River ‘and New York Ventral, Great Western, Canada and Michigan Central, to Chicago, thence via -Northwestern to Omaha. eighth per pound, and thus bring prices . . INCENDIARY.—The Petaluma Jour. aki fi m = ~ n made for ; six ha cage and intern Oints at twelve . dred feet deep, wi ‘An artesian auger cents per handred, or Jess than ong-. in Treasure Hill, and the rock chips strate of silver ore. . . A PRIVATE letter to the Los Angeles ing at 11 o'clock, at. the house of Dr. Thacker, fifteen miles from San Bucnaventura. Mus. Calhoun, traveljfg with the Coltax party, is « special correspondent of the New York Tribune. Her letters wiil be read with interest on both sides of the contipent.; APPLICATIONS to the extent of $3,000,000 have been made at the Treasary Department to deposit goid in the New York office and recetve therefor dratts on the San Francisco office. It is expected Government will assent to the request. ‘A MAN named Duffy, a deck hand on the steamer Goodman Castle, while engaged in unloading lumber from the boat -at Colusa on Saturday night, had his right ankle brokea, in consequence of some of the lumber falling upon it. the political issues of the day. Tae Western Pacific Railroad from Oakland, to Stockton, is expected to be in running order on the first/of SepTue Bulletin estingites there are fourteen millions of dollars locked up in the Sub-Treasary, San Francisco Treasury and Stéte Treasury. Senator Schurz, vf Missouri, is expected soon from the East, and the Germans of San Francisco are making arrangements for his: reception. Y (@rTos Nevaaw Bapnst Bonday days’ run have cleaned up about $15,-] School will celebrate their Third Anniversary, by appropriate exercises, on next Sunday evening. Everybody is invited to attend. FOURTEEN accidents have happen. ed among workmen in the Mare Island Navy Yen save Julyis, THE subroarine © cable connecting Vallejo with Mare Island was successfully laid August 13th. _ Tue California Powder Works manufactuted 12,930 kegs of powder during the month of July. A OWING to the dense smoke, navigation on Puget Sound is very difficult. Settee Harry Lewis, a Sun Francisco boy, fell from a tall tree at Santa Clara and broke both wrists, J. G. Gaier, a photographic a:tist, died at Camp Goodwin, en the upper Gila, July 2d. ‘ AN effort will be made to stop the usual gambling games at the State Fuir. Our old triend ‘tom Merry is now clerking on the steamer Goodman Casbrought up are to be examined for the purpose oi seeing whether there are any Weus says Colonel Siccamb, of the San, Francisco Dispatch h,died Saturday mornSENATOR Nye addressed a large asecmblage at Carson, August 14th, _) promise was offered $200 to eettie. “What!” Railroad is expected to be completed to this’ city, or te the weet bank of the Feather river, by the last of September, and the California and Uregon, passing up the west bank of the Feather river direct-to Chico, before next Spricg. Irun and ties fur one bundred miles . Of this railroad are lying at the Juiiction, and from Stockton to . Oakland. Probably the thou-auds of laborers now on the Western Pacific will te transferred to the California and. Uregen line about the Ist of (¢tober —_-} and if the winter s<ason should prove favurable for railroad constuction not many months will elapse before the iron horse will be heard snorting through the prosperons town of Chico. When these two rontes are completed Marysville will become an important railroad center, and must increase rapidly thereafter in population and business. Z y ‘Ex Califorpia, G F. Train has lashedthe Democrats more than he has the Kepublicans—contrary to his wont—and all Mie party Organs are aiter him accordingly, There is sincerity in the heartiness of th¢ir good-byes on his departure from ihe State, for they are immeueely giad to get rid ofhim. The burt bird fiatters. j and,

A Freicut train ‘bronght 1,0°0 chickens to Elko,on Wedaesday a week, from Utab The Elko I.depéndent says that is a healthy place for chickens. as it had not seen a dead one there fof a long time—which is its way of telling th¢ Elko landlords that a little more fowl on their tables would be acceptable to ‘A maw who lately sued a lady for breach of cried, “two hundred Jollars for ruined hopes, a shattered mind, a, lif ,and a bres mom Two hondréd@ dollars for all this! ,mever! Make it three, and it's a bargain.” <~ A GERMAN sued his neighbor. for killing kis dog. The Justice asked the defendant if he killed the dog. schure I kilt him, but let him prove it,” was the reply. This being satisfactory, the plaintiff was asked, with the view of assessing damages, how much the dog was worth. “The dog mean as to kill him be shall pay the full value of him.” This — will apply to a guod many lawsuits.” “TOMMY, my son, fetch in a stick o~ wood.” .Ah, my dear mother,” respondf ed the youth, “the grammatical portion ot your ed ication has been. sadly neglected. You should havesaid—“Thoma8, MY son, transport trum that recum~ bent collection of combustible material upon the threshold of this edifice one of the curtailed excrescenses of a defunct log.” A Horse on a Drunx.—A New Hampshire paper says that while & cou~ ple of young men were driving out; their horse showed signs of fatigue, stopped, and refused to go any farther. They procured some whisky and ad~ ministered it to the tired animal. Under the exhilarating influence of the fluid he wus induced to proceed. All went well for a mile or two, when he began to stagger and reel about. Ho was quickly detached from the buggy, and led by one of the young men, the ether drawing the buggy until they came to a house, where they lets it. The horse then began to prance and caper about in @ manner that wag extremely amusing. They kept him upon his feet as long as they coul 1, but at last he went down, made a few feeble str.ggles to rise, and sank back dead drunk. It was some two hours before he became sober enough to get home. INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to .the Commissioners to ascertain. and réport upon the condition of both the Pacific Railroa.is. Fhe Annual Races begin on “Pe . chine. was worth nothing, but since he was go . —_—. j ANNUAL MMETING ie Glenbrook Park Jockey Club! THE E. 8. PRATT, Pioprietor ofthe Courre. FRIDaY, August 20th, 18€9. ere : FIRST DAY. First Race—A purse oi $200 to be given to Frahk Malone, owned by .. Watt, « Frank,/owned by-... ences dee, "_” Fray. owned by...06.Tisdale. agree, . Second Race.—Purse of $100 to be given to JA, Lancaster's Pacing Mare and Mike R. i. Jey's Pacing Horse. Mile aud iepeat; to harness, and go to rule. = ag : : SECOND DAY. FiretMace — Purse o $200 for dotible teams —three in five, trotting. Second Race— Purse of $100 for running horses—mile aud repeat. ; Third Race—A Puree of $26 for single dash” ofa quarter. eV All horses entered for these races to be owx. ed in Nevada County. Good Stabling can be had at the Course. ADMISSION. FIFTY CENTS. Badges of admission to:he Track. DURIN » THE EN‘ IKE RACKS may be obtained from.J. E. BROWN, of Nevada, and of A. B. BRADY, Grass Valley. ai9 BLIVEN & POTTER, Dealers in Crockery. & Glassware, PLATED WakE, French & American Paper Hangings, Borders, Window shades, : ¥.xtures, ete. ete, Agents for the Lome Shuttle Sewing MeNo, 18 Comimercial si. 229 MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON, Willeive TWOofher * POPULAR LECTUREs, Thursday & Friday, Aug.19 & 20. At Nevada Theatre, ing Unreasonable, * Admission One Dollar. al4 J. ALEXANDER, Agent. EXECUTORS SALE. Nore 1S HEREBY GIVEN that in prsuance vf un order of the Probate Court, of the County of Nevada, aud State of Califor. uta, Made on the lith day of 4 ih D. 1869, iu the matteF of the Estate of Honors Agama deceased, the Pg omy Executor» Of vaid hetate, will sell at ic Auction, to the highert biduer, fur cash, and subject to confirmation by said Probate Court, On Friday, the 27th day ¢fAugust 1869, at 11 o’cleck, A.M. At the Brick Building known as Kidd's Batid ing, lately occupied by Jas. E Jduhnston ;sad situated on the north sideuf B vad ete and adjoining the office of 3.1 Calaweil, in Nevsda City, Nevaca County, Cal, all she persons) alae now in suid Building and known as Beds, Bedding, ¢ hairs, Tables, Dishes, and other pe: sous! property. E. ¥. SPENCE, : : DANIbL # LYNN, j Bxecatore. Best pirce in five, to go as the Ownere may Bubject.—“Struggling for Life," and “Noth . t@ New York Hotel Furniture, _ Bigler and the Legivlature were wrong. They will meet at Ni Aug. 17th. . Omaha on Monday next; and thence . — ee ae = ——$ proceed to Sacramento. So statea the . ’ NILES sKARLS, latest news from Washington. Attorney and Counselor at Law, eee tle, running on the upper Sacramento Tiver. SEIS Mth Oh iat i aidan . A YouNG lady bas been admitted as & student in the Medical Department of Williamette University, Oregon. 4 Par Day at Mare IsLanp.—Twelve hundred.and thirty-three employees at Mare Island were paid off on Wedesday. Of this number 746 are employed in the construction and repair department: It required the nice little sum of $168,278, currency, to foot the bill . 000 in bank in favor of E. A. Rock woll, for last month’s labor. . © start av opposition bit paper to the Tur Herald adwits that Se DemoGe. (Tee peepristersol the Call dide ealneeal pal ticket uf San Fri good deed. when they got rid of sach a can nut beelected. It ssys “it is us oseeme ™ pane eh much past praying for, as if it were already doomed und sent to judgment,” Tuk fall of prices in lumber ‘at San Francisco begins to be felt in Washington Territory, and many of the mills Hon. Frank Soule, poet. historian and editor, and one of the most active and earnest of the old line Republicans, is now editing the San Francisco (heretofore Democratic) Gall. Whereat the Democrats are talking of placing $50,MAKI KD, ae . At San Francieco, on the 18th inst., by Rev D. D. Chapin, Alvah A. Muilo t ‘are V. alk a, all of Nevada city. y to Mise Clara ~ To the bride and groom in their hour of happiness, we tender our congratulations. May adversity nor suffering . ever cast blighting shadows o’er their life path ; but-be it, rather, a way of peace and loveliness, leading them. ‘gently, hand in hand, toa better world. __—_—_ DIKD, OFFICE—Corner of Broad and Pine Streets over Carley & Bechman's snloon, Nevadé, 38 THE wheat Shipment trom Stockton to Sun Francisco on the 4th inst., was 1,047 tons, It is estimated tuat 5,000 acres of flux were sown in Minneso.a this year. Oue maa in Austin has sown 200 acres. ——— THE Sacramento river, between Knight's Landing’ and Red Hed, is lower than ever vefore known, -— : A BoY thirteen years old shot and killed ao Indian near Valpella, Mendo-. = GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, -_ 4ND— PRODUCK STORE, COMMERCIAL STREET, adjoining Keeney's Hardware Store. R. & BP. SUMMERS, : Proprietors. . WM. S. McROBERTS: H*4 Charge ol the Kstablisbment which je Constunuly suppiied with FknSH PARM PRUDUCK, cunelsting of At Williamsport, Lad., id a spring by the side of the railroad which the company werd obliged to wall up with rocks to keep the water off the track. An explosion, agof gas, took. place at the spring a day or two since, by been discha hands, az cin last Near thi: Butter, Eggs, ( hickens, Turkeys name ‘ raing aad raD=. which the wall and earth around were . ? 8B. a — sou or Wil tans hee ‘teed pa a it ‘ Seeeuite tettonrana x = — * _, . growa up toa height of soveral fut. . Taz Democrais und Kepublicans of Big 4 Wittia =e Fe x pe ests Bs of Groeeto pea ae ay threo story brick . °2'"ely demolished, — a . ‘Pam ratiroea wurvey from Monterey Sony, inte eee at Law, procuring all sorts of Farm Produce ireeh, su : duilding in-thet place for Admiral FarTHERE aro 25 patients in the Mare So Salinas ig completed as far ae Castro. "* Wiebe Pet tak . ragut, j teland Marine Hospital, ees . ville. ‘ ms : 4 ash Prices, Nevada, Avg. 11th. iain and consumers peeeraty are iavt' Families ted to givs us a call.